the truth about chronic illness
My health spiral can be tracked back to the wisdom tooth I had extracted on the 2nd of November this year. I knew it had the potential to throw things even more out of wack than what they were, but I was fast running out of options. I had been having a debate with my ...
I woke up last night from a nightmare in a cold sweat. In my nightmare I had either forgot to take my medication, or I had taken the wrong medication. Only someone who has continuing health problems has nightmares like that... I swear. I am meant to be back at work today (just my design job) ...
Today $6m was added to the Hendra Research fund in Australia by the Queensland and New South Wales after a Kelpie tested positive to the disease. Hendra Disease, until yesterday, was only found in flying foxes, horses and humans. Hendra's mortality rate is high. I want to start off by saying I agree with the additional ...
My partners going to quit his job, we will lose $2k in holiday half booked, we will also lose the house 6 weeks after he quits, I am getting 4 hours sleep a night, I am working like a dog here and at home for less than I am worth, I feel like I have been run over by a train and backed over by a mini bus, I have no iron in my body, I do have an incurable disease crawling around in my bowel and last night I woke myself up screaming and seeing spiders crawling all over me and our bed. But hey, I can take it – how about a bit more stress with all that?
More Crohn’s weirdness ensures. Awesome.
Hears to my ‘almost’ remission, hears to the end of the year of hell, and hears to me… doing whats right, not because its easy or enjoyable. But because its right and because I want to feel as well as I can – for as long as I can
So my choices are take a drug which is akin to mild Chemotherapy or risk having my Crohns return worse than ever… what a choice!
A screaming child welcomed me to the surgery in which I was going to do something I dreaded. I was going to get the HPV Immunization.
I am now an outpatient in the public health system and I’m sitting here wondering why the hell I didn’t do it sooner.
Prompted by my amazing partner, I have been looking into a few alternative treatments for Crohns Disease. We are not talking tealeaves and meditation, I know I have a problem and that positivity alone is not going to get it under control. I also know that I can’t continue to stay on the Entocort. The ...
